"We woke up something that was asleep," Bill Summers said late one night during this recording session, explaining the dramatic and practically overnight response which Los Hombres Calientes generated in New Orleans in the spring of 1998.

Irvin Mayfield's explanation was slightly different. "Everybody kind of knew that this is where the music has to go. It's just something that's known. It's like the world coming to an end or something. You just know."